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Which scholar argued that print helped nationalism by letting people think of the nation as an imagined community?

AAuguste Comte
BBenedict Anderson
CEmile Durkheim
DHerbert Spencer
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Benedict Anderson
1. Newspapers gave strangers a sense of togetherness. 2. Benedict Anderson called the nation an imagined community. 3. Indian nationalism grew with the nationalist press. _Source: syllabus Social Change and Development in India, Chapter 7, Mass Media and Communications._
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